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Ej | I Advertising |r v VOIJIMR ftl Contrac I Let Nexl ForNew RALEIGH ? Roadway and ( bridge plans have been completed for the Eatons Ferry < Bridge and are scheduled for " the December highway letting. | "* according to the State Highway I a A thecal UUClll. The bridge, to be located ap proximately 1 mile upstream from the present ferry crossing, will be 1,205 feet long. * The two-lane bridge will be 28 feet wide and have a clearance over the proposed Gaston Lake of 10 feet. Clearance over the present river bed would be 55 feet. Total length of the bridge and roadway is 3 miles, extending from the intersection of paved roads approximately 6] miles north of Vaughan, northeast to the intersection of a paved road approximately 1 mile south of Elams. Distance across the lake at the bridge site is estimated at 1 mile, to be spanned by high fills at each end and the bridge in the center. Specifications for the bridge call for 2,300 cubic yards of For MoreliMtr) SrKnl Littleton I Warren C X A Littleton High School senior, James William Clark, Jr., has been named Warren Comity's candidate for a Morehead Scholarship at the University of North Carolina. Announcement of Clark's selection was made here this week by Dixon H. Ward, chairman of the Warren County committee for the J|hn Motley Morehead Scholarship Foundation. As an applicant, Clark will have an opportunity to become the first Warren County stu-; dent to receive a Morehead Scholarship, which has a year ly value of $1250, Ward said. j,\ The 17-year-old Littleton student is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James William Clark of Vaughan. He was one of the | ttiMA Warrnn rnnnftr oamHio I vvutikj / VUUM who represented their respective high schools in the county competition. Other contestants ^ interviewd by the county committee were Ronald Shearin of Warrenton's John Graham High School and Fred Hicks of the Norlina High School. Clark, who was named State f 4-H Project winner in Entomol ogv last month, is an outstandlog student in his school. Ward said. He is a member of the football and basketball teams, ediItor of the school yearbook, associate editor of the school paper, president of the Littleton 4-H Club, and serves as an officer in other school and county organisations. Clark has an interest in art, and is assistant Ueaauiei of his church, Ward said. The criteria used for selecting a county representative is basically the same as is used for the Rhodes Scholarship, Ward said. Main emphasis is placed on citlxenshlp, scholar Em (Up, character and aUMOC tftA county U allowed an apI plkant . (or crorr 100 male H Ugh aehooi graduate*. Laat BV year -a total of S3 Kerehead Scholanhip* were awarded high Sf . School gradaate* in North | . comm^ftee'lfad^ time d I Subscription Price $3.1 . nr_ n i to De t Month t image concrete, 485,000 pounds of reinforced steel and 1,012,000 of structural steel. NOTICE In order for grocery advertising for Thanksgiving to Hp offp/?tiup Thn Warron Record must be printed early next Tuesday afternoon, instead of on Thursday as usual. All those writing columns are asked to let us have them by Saturday afternoon, if possible. To be printed next week they must be in our office by noon Monday. Correspondents are asked to have their copy in byMonday noon. Others with news are asked to send in their copy as early as possible. The cooperation of advertisers and those who send in the news will be greatly appreciated. arship Student Is I ! 1 andidate JAMES W CLARK, JR. Norlina, John Mitchell of Warrenton, and Robert Thome ol Littleton. Warren County's applicant for the Morehead Scholarship last year was Steven Read of Norlina. Four Men OverToJa Three Negro men were bound over to the January term of Warren County Superior Court for trial stemming out oi charges of tobacco theft lodged OMOIMO* MA 1A.4 MAMtk ??au?i UIV UIV KMV IUUUUI. Alec Clark, Albert Lee Pettaway and Johnny ChavU.charg ed with the theft of approximately 830 pound* of tobacco from a Drewry farm On October Id were bound over to the next criminal term of Superior court by Judge Juliu* Banyet presiding over the Warren County Recorder's Court hen on Wdw. Bom tor the three *n wt at |W0 oath. Alao ordered to appear at the January term of court wai Moms Leviater, charged witi robbery. Levister*i band srai act at $600. Chargm at reriatlng arreet cot^M ^wUh charges of po? Oowtio was alao fined fiot Shp 1 )0 a Year 10c Per < ** s a ' ^gSM^n vn? WELL DRILLERS ? Membei iinia Well Drillers Association JOHNSON TO JOIN RALEIGH BANKING FIRM Charles T Johnson, Jr., who has beer practicing law in Warrenton for the past four years in association with W W. Taylor, Jr., has accepted a I position with the Trust Department of First Citizens Bank and Trust Company in Raleigh. He and Mrs. Johnson, the former Mildred Stewart Crinkley, plan to move to Raleigh about December 1. > Johnson, a native of Sea' board, came to Warrenton shortly after graduating from Wake Forest College Law School and passing the State bar examination. He has been active in the practice of law here and in community affairs. He has served as Secretary of the Ninth Judicial District Bar Association and has been on two committees of the North Carolina Bar Association, having served as chairman for this county of the Bar Association's Committee on StateOwned Real Property. He has been active in Boy Scout work and the Warrenton Rotary Club, of which he was a director until his recent resignation. He is also a member of the American Legion and the warren County Farm Bureau. | Johnson has been active in the work of the Warrenton Baptist Church, in which he has been a deacon, and has been a teacher of the Alien Bible Class. Mrs. Johnson, an honor grad| uate of Duke University, has 1 been recognized as an outstanding teacher in John Graham High School, in which ?h? has?taught?the?seventh ' grade for the past three years. (See JOHNSON, page 10) Are Bound nuary Term I and costs on the resisting arrest charge and $150 and costs ; on the whiskey violations. Zack Miller was found not 1 guilty of a charge of assult With a deadly weapon and the state took a not pros to its case against Oaell Towns, tried on the same charge, i Other cases tried on Friday . included: . Jesse Ingram, reckless drlv(See COURT, page 1$) ' not i o select new i Deputy At Present A successor to Deputy Bob ! Cbowning of Vaughn, who re1 signed this week to accept a > position as chief of poBee with 1 the Town of Warranto*, will bet be filled for some ttae. ? Sheriff Jim Hundley said yesterday thst^he would take nw. LiUUl 5opy WARRENTON,~( s of the executive committees o are shown during a joint meeti Well Driller Committee Executive committees of the j North Carolina and Virginia wnll n>-illorc a pgngiajjonc hoiu a joint meeting at Hotel Warren on Saturday. Purpose of the meeting was to make plans for the Southeastern Atlantic States Well Drillers Convention to be held at Carolina Beach next August. AUie Moore of Wilmington was named chairman of the committee on arrangements and Robert Magette of Smithfield, Va., was named co-chairman. Also discussed were plans for the formation of a regional Well Drillers Association embracing the states of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, which will be on the agenda at the convention next August. Mayor W. A. Miles welcomed the guests at a luncheon, and Bignall Jones, editor of The Warren Record, also a special guest at the luncheon, was recognized. George McCall of Charlotte, president of the North Carolina Well Drillers Association, pre-1 Motorist Sc Officers Af An investigation of a multicar collision three miles west; r\t horn narlu Cnnrloti mnrni'nrt I ui iiv.it caiij uuimo j UIVIUU15 erupted into a fracas between one of the motorist and two Warren i_ounty law enforcement officers. Highway Patrolman W. E. Brown and Warren Deputy' Sheriff R, D. Chewning were questioning one of the three drivers involved when the' quarrel broke out. Jailed after being subdued j by the officers was Vernon j Lewis Carroll, 30-year-old Warren Negro, charged with drunk driving, resisting arrest, and assault on an officer. Carroll fought with the investigating officers after they had taken a knife from him and discovered a quanity of whiskey in his automobile. Carroll's automobile, along with two others, was involved In an accident on the Warrenton-Henderson highway shortly before 1 a. m. Sunday. Injured in the collision was T oitfta 40 a! TfTa T3CWW UWaill, 0V, Wt TTUICU- 1 ton. driver of one of the can, and an unidentified paaaenger in Carroll** car. Hooker was taken to Warren General Hospital here with facial injuria*, a broken collarbone, and knee inlory The paaaenger in Carroll'* Automobile waa not *erioualy injured. Patrolman Brown uttd. Brown *aid that an unidenti^^witeem ?aid^that^jCarr^ii SBBKCTSBSftU-* -; .* . * , ' SPPP^-; V ' ' ' m ? ;OUNTY OF WARREN, N 81 ' t>?e North Carolina and Virig here on Saturday. (Staff Photo) s Executive Meets Here |sided over the morning and anernoon session, ana made a short talk during the luncheon meeting when he stressed the growing importance of a good water supply to the nation. Manley Martin of Warrenton, past president, presided over the dinner meeting. Members of the executive committee of the two states present were George McCall of Charlotte, B. E. Fall of Elkins, president-elect of the North Carolina Well Drillers Association and Allie Moore of Wilmington, vice president, Reese Graham of West End, Ed White of Norlina, Manley Martin of Warrenton, Ray Migette of Ahoskie, and Monroe Hudson of Durham, all of the North Carolina Association; Garland Sydnor of Richmond, Calvin Falwell of Lynchburg, and Mr. Slayton of Farmville, all members of the Virginia Association. Present at the luncheon meeting as special guests, in addition to Mayor Miles and Jones, were Mrs. Manley Martin and Mrs. Garland Sydnor of Richmond. raps With ter Wreck highway, he was struck by an automobile driven by Rooker. Rooker, who had applied the brakes of his automobile some 60 feet before the impact, was driving west at the time of the accident. After striking Carroll's auto Rooker's car glanced and struck a parked automobile belonging to Willie Lee Richardson, 29-year-old Watten Negro. Richardson, parked partially on the highway, was charged with improper parking. Thanksgiving Dinner The dining room at Hotel r m Tvancil WUl DC UJICII iruui lA noon to 2 p. m. on Thanksgiving Day when a regular Thanksgiving dinner will be served, Mrs. Wallace Bowers, co-manager of the dining room, said yesterday. Dance At Norlina A dance will be held at the Norlina gyratorium tonight (Friday) from 8 until 11 o'clock under the sponsorship of the Norlina High School Student Council. Admission charge will be 29c. letdrlai Triatmwst Mrs. William Bullock and children ere in Durham with relative*. Nesbitt Bullock is at Watts Hoapltal for treatment Mrs. W. M^Gardner was a patient in Warren Oeneral Hospital for several days last rV H144 . c. 1 Board Dept. 5 Comm Decision * ~ Leads to A Protest A police shakeup involving the demotion of a police chief, the hiring of a new chief and the request for the resignation of an officer Monday night led to the resignation of one commissioner and the public protest of another. Beverly White, member of the town board for five and one-half years and chairman of the water committee, tended I his resignation to the board 1 Monday night at an executive meeting of the board, following an open session of an hour and a half. "I didn't think it was needed, I didn't approve of it. and I wanted no part of it," White j said yesterday to explaining the reason for his resignation. | He said feeling the way he did about the matter, he had no other course to follow. He said that he felt that any further statement on his part would serve no useful purpose. Both White and Commissioner A. D. Johnson protested the action of the board and re quested that their vote be re corded against the motion tc make the changes in the police department. Commissioner A C. Fair abstained from voting. Johnson told a representative of this newspaper on Wednesday that he not only asked that his vote be recorded against the action taken by the majority of the board members. but he wanted it stated publicly that he had fought it. Johnson said that he opposed the action of the board both because he thought it was unnecessary and because of the way it was handled. White, a member of the police committee, said that he had fought the proposal ir committee meetings for some time. Action of the board thai caused the resignation and pub lie protest, taken after Mayoi Miles had stated that thi board would go into executivi session, involved the deinotioi of Howard Salmon, who ha: served as police chief here foi nearly two years, from chiel to officer, a request for th< resignation of police officei Claude Bottoms, and the em " ployment of R. D. Chewning former police chief of the town, as the new police chief Chewning resigned as police chief here nearly two yean ago to accept a position ai deputy sheriff under Sheriff Jim Hundley. At that time Salmon was promoted to police chief and superintendent of streets. On Wednesday morning, the commissioners held a bailee meeting at which time *he resignation of White and Bot toms was "accepted with re <TWl* Mayor W. A. Miles said tha discussion of changes in th< police department had beet underway here for severs months and that when Chewn ing indicated that he would tx willing to return ae polics chief, the action was taken He said that he resetted thi resignation of CommMoiMS White and that it was neceo Sat he feels that Om ehanga* made in the police itapaitomil are for tks be?t interest of ths town. After, his promotion to chief, Salmon moved from Littleton to Wanrenton where h* buih a home. Chewninu maintaim i his residence IT Vaughaft Johnson said Oat this was om of the reasons he. opposed Ux thange. He said he also oh I Ijtnim,1 * at.. guilrlmn^B ill iKi 5W!fr. ?' " . . i ranting Company X helby Street FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1! Orders )hakeuj 1 IdOIUIICI h BF '? " ::^j!|M *$k v *1 I K ': ;flH| R. D. CHEWNING, Gets Job j action with no prior notice to , I either Salmon or Bottoms. The official story of the ac- j : tion taken in the executive | I session Monday night as shown i ; by the minutes of this part of | i the meeting of the board fol-1 | lows: "Mayor W. A. Miles reported j to the Board on a joint meet- j ing held with the Police Com-. ' mittee and the Street Com-1 1 | mittee, and a study which has ' j been made of police and street affairs in the Town. He stat1 j ed that as a result of this ! study, he had the following recommendations to make to lKa Paorr\ "Mayor Miles stated that he had learned that R. D. Chewning, now a Deputy Sheriff, who was formerly Chief of Police and Street Superintendent and Equipment Engineer of the Town for many years and is an experienced and capable of-! Utilities E Talked B t Discussion of two utility pro-t . jects, both outside the town r limits, occupied the attention ? of the town commissioners at s their regular meeting on Monj day night. 5 B. W. (Tot) Currin and Monr roe Gardner, owners of a de( velopment on the Golf Course road, a short distance east of f the town, appeared before the commiouloners ttr~Tequest~~that , the town lay a 2-inch water } line from a town main some 750 feet from their property, - the cost to be borne by the > property owners. They said that two lots had already been t sold on the property and that > they expected that other > lots would be sold as soon as ! the water line is extended. After a brief discussion i about f- six-inch line to the 1 property instead of a two-inch s line in order that a hydrant - could be installed on the prop erty, with the town paying all or part of the difference t in cost of the two sizes of s pipe, the matter was referred ? to the water committee for 1 further consultation with Gard ner and Currin. ? Following the discussion with i Currin and Gardner, Dr. D. ) Hbndefson, who has constructthe\orfIna rOwTMMShw k A. WWW- , I WW- . - ?X-S a in? warren utOMU Hoapttai, i appeared before the commis: sioners in regard to buildk lag a sewer line from his property to a connection with the (MM a( 1Tapm ftPMMk n. wa? i accompanied by W E. Perry, t Jr., who appeared in behalf of i lima Right, spokesman for . group of other citizens on the | Nmrlina road Interested ^in ob cH v./ ,-^V. ....... - - i - gj Your Best Advertising Medium 960 NUMBER 47 9 Police j > Here; Quits 17 H a ; ? 4 11 H Resigns ficer, had indicated a willing- j ness to return to these positions if they were offered to him. Mayor Miles stated that, because of Mr. Chewning's long S experience as a law enforcement officer and his very satisfactory work when head of the Town's Street Department, he felt that it would be wise for I the Town to take advantage of his willingness to return to his former positions and recommended that they be offered to him, at a salary of . ' 5350.00 per month, beginning immediately. H "Mayor Miles then recom- ;-|8 mended that, if Mr. Chewning accepts this offer, Mr. H. H. Salmon, now serving as Chief of Police and Street Superin- | i tendent, return to his former E9 position as Second Shift officer. effective immedlatelv. ?t a salary of $300.00 per month, (See BOARD, page 1*) Extension I y Board I from a contractor for installing a sewer line from his proper- I ty to connect with a sewer line I I at the hospital. He had agreed, instead, to contribute $g00 towards extending a six-inch line I 1 along the highway in order that some 15 other property I owners might have town sew- I erage, with these inhatritants__^H payings.the?difference in the line, estimated to cost some $2300, plus a rock clause in the contract. Willie Hight had contacted J the property owners, who he said had agreed to the propoe- I al to pay the difference hi the I 1 cost of the line, with the towa assuming part of the cost of the rock clause. However, Dr. , . Kallman, who owns property , I on the side of his hospital, A had been approached by a person possibly interested * buying this lot for the pufMhBi of building a laundry-mat 6n . |H It Such building would re quire an 8-inch sewer line. After this. Dr. Kallman had suggested that the property owners affected nav the dUhMdlaol on an eight-inch line* wMfeh A would have beea hi tha aflH borhood of $375.00 more* 'M|^ ry aaid that the property own- j era, according to BUM, mH unwilling to pay thla adMKt&g ttonal cost. Dr. Kallman said that tfcffiSi was no certainty that ha <M| tell hit let, that he had haHEM held up fhr several anh'JHB to hit inability was anxious to bifh <MN^| hia hospital. w?? wuung to ?? aptemnt la pogr $180 #nH the construction of the eesliHH lino riot the highway, property owners did not onoH to put to the dtoMfatit 99 <? tmuiwyipB
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